Several of the barracks and the mess hall of Hazelhurt Field with new buildings for Curtis Field being built.

What are the buildings located in the bottom of the aerial?

The Curtiss Engineering Corporation complex, built in 1918, was the first factory in the world for the research and develoment of aircraft. Most of the Curtiss buildings are still standing. They are considered the oldest surviving aircraft factory.

What is the date of the Mystery Foto? Provide a rationale.

Circa 1925. Rationale:

-Curtiss Field buildings under construction that were completed in 1929 (see below).

-The porte cochere of the Garden City Lodge was not added until 1929.

-Construction of the homes of the Mott section in Garden City had not yet broken ground.

Comments

Aug 10 2018Ron Ridolph2:51 AM

Garden City, NY

Aug 10 2018Andy5:09 PM

Curtis Aeroplane complex, bottom of photo, on Clinton Ave, GC. Stewart Ave west to east. VMP concrete double underpass on Clinton Ave. Buildings in the north part of photo include VHB toll house. Long Island RR tracks which is part of Central Extension.
Photo taking circa 1915 - 1920.

Aug 10 2018Greg O.7:09 PM

-Identify the location and orientation of the photgrapher
Over Garden City, looking North

-What are the buildings located in the top of the aerial?
Roosevelt Field

-What are the buildings located in the bottom of the aerial?
Curtiss Engineering Corporation

-What is the date of the Mystery Foto? Provide a rationale.
1932-This looks to be taken at the same time as Mystery photo #2 from Feb. 18 2013.

Aug 11 2018Tim Ivers12:15 PM

The Curtis Engineering looking north at Stewart Avenue and Clinton Road Garden City.
Top center is the 3 opening Clinton Road bridge carrying the LIMP over Clinton Road; to its right is the toll lodge and further right was the Parkway general manager’s residence.
Directly north of those structures was Hazelhurst Field.
Horizontally across the bottom below the Curtis plant are the railroad and Commercial Avenue.

Aug 11 2018frank femenias12:43 PM

Fantastic view of Garden City looking north at the Clinton Rd/Stewart Ave/Osborne Rd intersection. Admiring all the open spaces. Sharpest aerial view yet of the Garden City Lodge and Supt’s house. It appears his car hood was open. I can almost make out the writing on the Clinton Rd bridge. Is that a second Motor Parkway sign by the bridge? The white roadway just left of the bridge is former Hospital Rd, and the roadway intersecting just after the bend is former South Street, both of Camp Mills Base hospital (1918-1919). Also seen just north of Osborne are the two dirt roads converging at Clinton Rd, once used as a shortcut to the hospital. Included are Commercial Ave, Central RR, and Motor Parkway. The brick smokestack by Central RR still exists today, but now braced with reinforcement and an array of cellular antennas. The Mott Section here is still undeveloped, so dating this aerial in the mid ‘20s. The buildings on top are offices of Roosevelt Airfield, and buildings on bottom unknown. Keep ‘em comin’!

Aug 11 2018Roy Warner11:11 PM

Just a guess. View is northwest from the south side of Stewart Ave. in Garden City. I think the building south of Stewart Ave. and to the west is still extant; I haven’t been in LI for 15 years. In any event, the area shown in the top of the photo, based upon my guess, would be the current Roosevelt Field.

Aug 12 2018Gene Perry8:19 AM

This us the Cerro wire factory in Weatbury just north of the LIE . Keep up the great vintGe photos. Thanks,Gene Perry

Buildings at top are part of the Curtiss Field. Buildings at bottom are the Curtiss Engineering Corp./Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co.

Late teens, early 20s. Before Intercollegiate Golf Course in 1926, limited development west of Clinton Road. Low growth among trees/shrubs.

Aug 12 2018David Fluhrer8:52 AM

I’m guessing it’s the Grumman plant with the administration building facing north on Stewart Ave., Bethpage. Photographer is facing east. Time period is late 1930s, since Grumman moved from Farmingdale to Bethpage in 1936.

Aug 12 2018S. Berliner, III2:35 PM

Another “HA”; I worked in that building ca. 1955-56! That’s the former Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. (later Oxford Filing/Pendaflex) plant on the southeast corner of Clinton Road and Stewart Avenue In Garden City. The second-story bridge between the office and plant is still evident today (it once held the wind tunnel throat). We’re over today’s Commercial Avenue looking (LI) NNE. The buildings to the north are probably the stables for the country club. Clinton runs center left to top center and the LIMP runs above center left to center right (W to E). The LIMP structures are the Clinton Road and trolley bridge, the super’s office, and the toll lodge. Probably early ‘20s as the Mott Section hadn’t been developed yet. Love to know what that big building above the bridge might be. Sam, III

Aug 12 2018S. Berliner, III2:46 PM

Oops! Forgot to identify Stewart Avenue running left to right (W to E) above the Curtiss plant, the Central RR of LI line between the plant and the two warehouses (still standing), or Commercial Avenue in front of the warehouses (which means we’re over today’s Brook Street), and to thank Richard P. for these fantastic aerials. Sam, III

Aug 12 2018Steve Lucas7:33 PM

We’re over East Garden City looking north with the LIMP coming in from the north and curving east with the bridge over Clinton Road, general manager’s office, and Garden City Toll Lodge all visible. The buildings at the top belong to Curtiss Air Field and the bottom structures are the Curtiss Engineering plant. Along with Clinton Road, there is Stewart Avenue, an early Commercial Avenue and the road west of the LIMP leading to the Army hospital. Since Curtiss Engineering was built in 1918 and Curtiss Field appears to be still under construction, I’ll guess the date to be 1918, maybe 1919.

Aug 13 2018Dick Gorman11:08 AM

Mystery Foto #32… We are in the Garden City/Mineola area with the photographer looking North West. The Clinton Road Motor parkway bridge is shown in the top, center. Tree lined Clinton Road shows in the upper left quadrant of pic. The building in the top of photo is Roosevelt Field airport. The Curtiss Engineering Corp buildings are seen at the bottom of the aerial. As a guess on the date I would say between 1925 and 1928.

Aug 13 2018Dick Gorman11:47 AM

Mystery Foto # 32….We are in the Garden City/Mineola area with the photographer looking North West. The Clinton Road Motor Parkway bridge is shown in the top, center. Tree lined Clinton Road shows in the upper left quadrant of the pic. The buildings seen at the top of Photo are Roosevelt Field airport. The Curtiss Engineering Corp buildings are seen at the bottom of the aerial. As a guess on the date I would say between 1925 and 1928.

Aug 13 2018Michael LaBarbera1:38 PM

Looking north at Clinton Road from south of Commercial Avenue GC. Curtiss Factory is south of Stewart Avenue, Long Island Motor Parkway at the bend over Clinton with its 3 section bridge, the entranceway to LIMP and the office and Toll House. No Portico on the toll house means it was the early 1920s. Great pic it shows how hardly anything was there after WW1.

Speaking of eagle eyes and no portico (bravo!), I see that the “second-story bridge between the office and plant” (Curtiss) now has a first-story enclosure. Views looking down into the old plant, such as the ‘20s and ‘28s’s above, were taken from the east end of that bridge. Sam, III

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